The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
DEATH IN THE WATER.
is THE ELEMENT WE DRINK DECIMAT-
ING THE PEOPLE?
How a Universal Menace to Health
May Be DiSarmed.

May Be Disarmed.
A few years ago the people in q cert air
section in one Of the leading cities of the
State we're Frustrated with a malignant
disease, and upon investigation it was
found that only those who used water
from a famous old well were the victims
Professor s. A. baltimore, analyst OF
the New York State Board of Health
upon aualyzing water from this well
found it more deadly than the city eew.
age!
The filing up of the old well stopped
the ravsges of the disease.
Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation for
a large building, stratum of dark color
ed earth running from near the surface to
hsrdpan. There it took another course
| toward well near at hand. The water
from this we'll had for years been tainted
with the DRAWINGS from a receiving vault,
the percolations of which had discolored
the ear6hl
TerribleI
A similar condition of things exists in
every village and city where well water is
used, and though the filtering which the
fluids receive in passing through the earth
may give them clear appearance, yet the
poison and disease remains. though the
water may look never SO clear.
It is still worse with the farmer, for the
drainage from the barn yard and the
Stops from the kitchen eventually find
their way into the family we'll.
The same condition of things exists in
our large cities, whose water supplies are
rivers fed by little streams that carry off
the filth and drainage from houses. This
water" is eventually drank by rich and
poor alike with great evil.
Some cautious people resort to the fl
ter for purifying this water, but even the
filter does not remove this poison, for
water of the most deadly character may
pass through this filter and become clear,
yet the poison disguised is there.
They who use filters know that they
must be renewed at regular periods, for
even though they do not take out all the
impuIity, they soon become foul.
Now in like manner the human kidneys
act as filter for the blood, and if they
are filled up with impurities and become
foul, like the filter, all the blood in the
system coursing through them becomes
bad, for it is now a conceded fact that the
kidneys are the chief means whereby the
blood is purified. These organs are filled
with thousands of hdir-like tubes which
drain the impurities from the blood, as
the sewer pipes drain impurities from
our houses.
If sewer pipe breaks under the house,
the sewage escapes into the earth and
fills the house with poisonous gas; go if
any of the thousand and one little hair.
like sewer tubes of the kidneys break
down, the entire body is affected by this
awful poison.
tits scientific fact that the kidneys
have few nerves of sensation; and, conse-
quently, disease may exist in these or
gans for long time and not be suspected
by the individual. It is impossible to filter
or take the death out of the blood when the
least arrangement exists in these organs,
and if the blood is not filtered, then the
uric acid, or kidney poison, removable
only by Warmers safe cure, accumulates
in the system and attacks any organ, pro
ducing nine out of ten ailments, just as
sewer gas and bad drainage produce SO
many fatal disorders.
Kidney disease may be known to exist
if there is any marked departure from Or
binary health without apparent known
cause, and it should be understood by all
that the greatest peril exists, and is in
tensitied, il there is the least neglect TO
treat it promptly with that great specific
Warmers safe ure, a remedy that has re
ceived the highest recognition by scien-
tifc men who have thoroughly investi-
gated the character of kidney derange-
ments.
They may not tell us that the cause of
go many diseases in this organ is the
impure water or any otherone thing but
this poisonous water with it's impurities
coursing constantly through these del
icate organs undoubtedly does pro-
duce much of the decay and disease
which eventually terminates in the fatal
Bright's disease, for this disease, alike
among the drinking men, prohibitionists,
the tobacco slave, the laborer, the mer
chant and the tramp, works terrible dew
astation every year.
1t is well known that the liver which is
SO easily thrown "out of gear" as they
say, very readily disturbs the action OF
the kidneys. That organ when deranged,
Immediately announces the fact by sal
low skin, constipated bowels, coated
tongue and headaches, but the kidney
when diseased, struggles on for long
time, and the fact of its disease can only
be discovered by the aid of the micro
| scope or 10y the physician who is skillful
enough to trace the most indirect effects
in the system to the arrangement of these
organs, as the prime cause.
The public is learning much on this
subject, and when it comes to understand
that the kidneys are the real health regu-
lators, as they are the real blood purifiers
OF the system, they will escape an infinite
amount of unnecessary suffering, and
add length of days and happiness to their
| lot.